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Heber City Homes – What are you looking for?

I recently went through a home in Heber City for a client. This home had 4,500 sq. ft, 6 bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths. There are many homes similar to this one if you are interested! 
Heber City is a wonderful place to live. Located on the Wasatch Back, it is the perfect place if you want to live somewhere that feels isolated; yet still close to Salt Lake City, Park City and Provo. There are homes with high square footage and large spacious lots.
If you’re looking to buy, there are currently 233 residential listings on the Wasatch Front MLS in Heber City. It is a great time to look through a variety of homes and find one that suits your liking! 
In 2018 there were 258 residential sales. Have you recently considered listing your home? Contact me today for a home market evaluation at no cost! 

Contact me for more information and for all your Real Estate needs.

Brian Olsen – Coldwell Banker
801-318-3108
bolsenrealestate@gmail.comwww.bolsenre.com

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Midway Dutch Canyon & Dutch Fields

Have you ever been to Midway, UT? I just want to share a little bit of information with you about an area of Midway well known as Dutch Fields.

 Last fall they started building out at Dutch Canyons. (it’s just west of Dutch Fields) It’s a little bit higher elevation and is absolutely beautiful. There aren’t many parcels left in this area. 

 Dutch Canyon is an HOA, Dutch Fields is an HOA, and a lot of people tell me that they don’t want to be in an HOA. However, what are some benefits of it?

 Some HOA fees are higher than others. However, sometimes the lower priced HOA fees don’t give you as many benefits like this one does. This HOA here in Dutch Canyon includes a pond and a swimming pool, etc. 

 HOAs often have conditions, covenants, and restrictions to keep the homes nice and that’s one of the biggest benefits of an HOA. People don’t want their home or their property to lose value due to someone not taking care of their yard. 

 So a couple of things: some HOAs have a higher fee, but they take care of everything. They take care of your front lawn, back lawn, the trees, the shrubs…everything. Others will charge a little bit less and allow you to take care of a portion of your yard or all of your yard. However, if you start letting your lawn get too dry or you have a car on cinder blocks on your front lawn it may not be tolerated; there are some certain restrictions to keep the community looking nice. So HOAs in that aspect are a benefit to maintaining the value of your property and the overall feel of the neighborhood. 

Anyway, check it out! There are a variety of price ranges in this area. I have another client that’s looking at a property and it’s not on the higher end like the Dutch Fields and Dutch Canyon. 

 Keep in mind that HOAs do have an impact on your loan-to-value ratio. So depending on what you’re looking to do there, that’ll have an impact.

 Check out this clip and take in this beautiful area, it’s just incredible. What a great view of Heber Valley, it’s a great location!

 If you are interested in Dutch Canyon or Dutch Fields please get in contact with me and we can find you a wonderful place to live in Midway, UT.
Contact me for more information and for all your Real Estate needs.

Brian Olsen – Coldwell Banker
801-318-3108
bolsenrealestate@gmail.com
www.bolsenre.com

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Old and New Saratoga Springs

Hello everyone, I am in Saratoga Springs looking at a home here and just wanted to share a couple things with you. Saratoga Springs is the coolest place and this home is in the area that used to have the marina and the old hot springs.


If you know much about Saratoga Springs, it’s a cool story about a guy named John Beck. He was working in the Tintic district of Utah and had made a ton of money in the mines out there. He came over to this side, saw the hot springs and then bought approximately a thousand acres and turned it into a resort. He named it Saratoga Springs after the Saratoga Springs Resort in New York.


It was the late 1800’s when he started it (not that I go back that far) but I do remember coming here in the 70’s. There were parks, picnic tables, a water slide and of course the hot springs. I was a really, really cool place. Now it is homes.


This home is a great home; just over 5,700 square feet, six bedrooms, four baths. But the thing that’s really cool is this home is in a location where they have an HOA and it’s around $100 a month. They have two pools, they have the dock, in fact, you can see the lake right here in the video. They have a private marina, dock, they have basketball courts, they have pavilions, a couple clubhouses. It’s amazing what they have in this HOA for such a low price!


Saratoga, as I’m sure everybody’s heard…Saratoga, Eagle Mountain, all of this side of the lake…has been growing like crazy! In this area here they have houses built, but they’re not on top of each other.


So if you’re interested in living in Saratoga let me know! If you’re interested in the history I’d love to talk to you about that too, it’s a pretty fun history.  

Give me a call if you’re interested in buying or selling Saratoga! Add that to your list, I’d love to help you!

Contact me for more information and for all your Real Estate needs.

Brian Olsen – Coldwell Banker
801-318-3108
bolsenrealestate@gmail.com
www.bolsenre.com

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Appraisals & Views

Hey, everyone, hope you’re having a great evening. I wanted to take a minute and just share some thoughts about some appraisal situations. I also wanted to share with you this view here. This is one of the best views you’ll ever see anywhere, I just love this. Could Midway, UT be any more beautiful?

A recent situation has urged me to share with you a couple things you need to know specifically as a buyer (somewhat as a seller) about appraisals.

As a buyer, you need to get the appraisal; the lender is going to order the appraisal, the appraisal will come in. You need to know that you have a right to that appraisal. There was a law passed in 2010; the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and that law said that the lender is obligated to give you, the buyer, a copy of the appraisal. And they’re supposed to give it to you promptly after they receive it or within three days of closing, whichever one is earlier.

Now why should you make sure you get that appraisal? You’re going through the lending process and need to make sure you have the correct value of that property. Look and review what the comparables were and what was used in some of the properties.

This is an instance where having a Realtor will become beneficial to you. Your realtor will start working with the seller’s agent because that agent is going to know the specific area. They’ll know what comparables they looked at when they originally priced the home. This is critical because sometimes you’ll get a comparable of a home that’s the same acreage, same square footage, but it may have been distressed or have a problem. The listing agent is probably going to know all of these details.

So make sure you get that appraisal! Your lender not only is obligated to give you the appraisal but any additional paperwork, any reviews…anything else that he’s using to get your loan put together or that the appraiser used to come up with the appraisal of the property.

It is critical that you know this! Take the opportunity to work with your lender, let him know as soon as the appraisal comes in: “Give me a copy of the appraisal. I want to review it, I want to make sure that I’m getting some good value in my property.”

If you have a question about appraisals give me a call, shoot me a text or message and I’d love to help you.

Contact me for more information and for all your Real Estate needs.

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Brian Olsen – Coldwell Banker
801-318-3108
bolsenrealestate@gmail.com
www.bolsenre.com

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Awesome Mountain Views & Landscaping

5200 SF Home on 2.7-Acres in the Wasatch Back

How about a couple of ponds and stream in your backyard with plenty of grass and full grown trees? Add to that a beautiful gas fire pit, a few lights shining into the trees, a few lamp posts around the perimeter and bridges over the stream.

This 5,200 sf home includes a large deck overlooking the backyard and get the wonderful feeling of being far from any city, then remember you are only three minutes to downtown Midway, Utah and 25 minutes to downtown Park City, Utah.

This is an amazing location and home which you can be seen even better in this video.

Contact me for more information and for all your Real Estate needs.

Brian Olsen – Coldwell Banker
801-318-3108
bolsenrealestate@gmail.com
www.bolsenre.com

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For Sale – 86 Acres in Wallsburg, UT

Huge parcel with 86 acres in RA-5 zone, so there is the possibility of sub-dividing the property into 5 acre lots with amazing views in almost every location of the property. High water ditch runs through the property with a scattering of large trees **Build a dream home or retreat for yourself only or bring some friends and still have plenty of space to share an amazing valley ***close to forest land with hiking, horse riding, snowmobiling and hunting **Part of the Wasatch Back, Wallsburg is far enough away to feel like you can get away, but still close to Heber City, Park City, Salt Lake and Provo.

Contact me for more information 
and to work with you in all of your Real Estate transactions.
Brian Olsen
Coldwell Banker
C: 801-318-3108
E: bolsenrealestate@gmail.com

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Recently Sold Duplex in Nephi, Utah!

I was recently able to list and sell this beautiful duplex
in Nephi, Utah. 436 Duplexes sold in Utah during 2017.
 In this buyer’s market, now is a better
time than ever to consider selling your property.

This duplex was built in 1980 and features 2 bedrooms
and 1 bathroom and  940 square feet per unit.
The north unit was remodeled 4 years ago, the
south had major upgrades 1 year ago. This
 property sold in just under 3 months.
Please contact me today for additional information 
and a free market evaluation of your property!
Best Regards,
Brian Olsen – Utah Realtor
C: 801-318-3108
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Amazing Parcel For Sale!

7368 E Valley View Dr. S #1463, Heber City, Utah
Gated Community with beautiful valley and mountain views. Close to Heber City and all of its amenitites and far enough for a feel of serenity and privacy. Year round access to this property. Build a primary residence or a get-away cabin. Bring your ATV’s, snowmobiles, tackle, ski’s, etc. In the heart of beautiful Wasatch County, close to golf courses, blue ribbon fly fishing, Apline and Nordic skiing, boating, water skiing and much more. 
Best Regards,
Brian Olsen – Utah Realtor
C: 801-318-3108
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Wasatch Back Views from Timber Lakes

Hey everyone, hope you’re having a great weekend. I am up at Timber Lakes, I’ve been up here before and done some Facebook lives, and I love it up here, and I just need to show you this view of the Wasatch back and Timpanogos this is amazing.
Timber Lakes is such a neat development. It’s a gated community if you’re not familiar, it’s on the east side of Heber City. Anyway, I’m up here looking at a few parcels and just wanted to share a little bit of information about real estate up here.
There are 36 parcels currently for sale through Realtors. In the last six months 26 parcels have sold. So Timber Lakes hasn’t moved a whole lot of properties that fast for a while, at least as far as I’ve known, but right now there’s quite a few homes being built here, it’s just a great place. 
So if you’re interested this side of Timber Lakes, I call it my cell phone side and the other side is my non-cellphone side because I don’t have reception on the other side. So you have the view of the valley, you don’t have the the quakies and pines here like you do on the other side but there’s lakes on
the other side again you got the views of Heber on this side. 
There are so many different options here in Timber Lakes that if you’re interested at all let me know, I’d love to help you out and tell you what’s available, whether it’s a parcel that you can build your own place on, or existing homes, there’s a number of existing homes, and they range from, I think the smallest I’ve seen was 1,300 sq. ft. up to 5-6,000 sq. ft.
 Anyway,  have a great weekend and we will chat with you later.

Best Regards,
Brian Olsen – Utah Realtor
C: 801-318-3108
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